Phone fungus
Austrian scientists have created a mobile phone with the facility to identify mushrooms.
The team of researchers from Hagenberg college created software which can tell the difference between poisonous funghi and edible mushrooms, in an effort to prevent people being poisoned by accident.
Dozens of people mistakenly eat poisonous mushrooms every year and several are even killed by it.
Now wild mushroom lovers just need to photograph the funghi on the phone so it can be compared with the systems database to determine whether it is edible.
The new software can identify 600 different funghi.
© bangshowbiz.biz
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